…she doesn’t look like typical Japanese lady

I think that not looking like a “typical Japanese lady” was the whole idea.

Japan has been doing a lot better at these pageants since they stopped letting Japanese choose the entrants based on their own standards of beauty. I heard that a French woman is in charge of it now. Japanese tend to emphasize the cute girly look over the mature sexy “woman” and were choosing entrants that they thought were “cute” (imagine Morning Musume with crooked teeth here) but who just couldn’t cut it alongside the amazons that enter these pageants.

…this year 2k7 Japan won and I would say definitely that she conveyed her thoughts well and was quite a bit better at doing so than Miss Kurara Chibana….

Hi, I’m from Barbados I just picked up this message in passing since i’m very interested in this. But i want to say while i do think maybe the crown should have gone into other hands than the ones they were in for 2k6 I severely doubt that the minor differences between the translations of the interpreter and the other person who posted would have made a significant difference. In actual fact, if she had bashed the males as the originator of this message seems to be indicating by their translation that would have been worse. And 2) if the translation is correct as oppsed to that of the official interpreter then she certainly didn’t do what she was supposed to which is ANSWER THE QUESTION AS COMPLETELY AS POSSIBLE IN 30 SECONDS. Yes she does answer the question in both versions of thr translation. However, she does not answer it in any of them, with the completeness and without ambiguity and with clarity so that her words and meanings can not be mistrued in any way. Since miss universe would be a spokesperson for several products and agencies and organisation these are necessary. And the girl who can meet the majority of the criteria required for effective communication will get big marks towards her final score. And i believe that is a big part of why she did not succeed although i would say she is a very pretty girl and her national costume rocked!!! of course this year 2k7 Japan won and I would say definitely that she conveyed her thoughts well and was quite a bit better at doing so than Miss Kurara Chibana.

(And just just for the record, I’m not really some kind of bikini pervert—This is a commercial, for-profit, news blog and this topic always has the greatest number of income generating hits).

miss japan still looks the best!

Perhaps but….
…This year’s Miss Japan most likely does not have the winning potential the previous Miss Japan, Kurara-san , who made it to runner-up status wearing an aka-ninja (red ninja) costume which was discussed in length in the 3Yen report, Miss Universe in ninja high heels.